{"id":531976,"date":"2026-01-12T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/531976\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:18:13","slug":"this-sure-looked-like-the-real-knicks-with-irreplaceable-josh-hart-back-in-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/531976\/","title":{"rendered":"This sure looked like the real Knicks with &#8216;irreplaceable&#8217; Josh Hart back in fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always useful to remember what Leo Durocher once said about the Mets when they were first becoming something more than a cute little story early in the summer of 1969. The first-place Cubs had dropped the first two games of an intriguing three-game series with the second-place Mets at Shea Stadium, the first genuinely important games the Mets had ever played.<\/p>\n<p>Then, a day after Tom Seaver\u2019s famed \u201cImperfect Game\u201d one-hitter, a hail of bad fielding and bad baserunning and bad pitching had sabotaged them in the third game, depriving them of a sweep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere those the real Cubs?\u201d someone asked Durocher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Leo the Lip replied, \u201cthose were the real Mets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s always useful to remember what Leo Durocher once said about the Mets when they were first becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,327,6,191,687,471,3967,66,198,196,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-531976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-josh-hart","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-portland","14":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","15":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115883036392266540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}